PSYC 3480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Inequality, Radical Feminism, Class Discrimination

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

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Social categories created by human culture: sex and gender, gender, sex and gender. Often used interchangeably in the past no clean absolute separation is: unger (cid:523)1979(cid:524) Sex a person(cid:495)s biological maleness or femaleness: similarities and difference. Gender non-physiological aspects of being female or male-the cultural expectations for femininity and masculinity possible: similarities perspectives. : emphasize how similar women and men are. We build our version of reality based on what we have experience before , who we interacted with , etc. Ex: statistics show insurance companies say women are good drivers as men. Yet some people say women aren(cid:495)t goo drivers: difference perspective, )ntellectuality, in social skills. People react differently to men and women gender as stimulus variable. Ask good question about what you see and hear. Determine whether conclusions are supported by the evidence that has been presented. Suggest alternative interpretations of the evidence on persons sex state.